Writing your travel blog

I was invited to give this talk to final year Cruise Management undergraduates, They are working on a travel blogging activity for their assessed fieldwork in Belgium. Here are my Powerpoint slides if you would like to go through them again. They are stored on my Google Drive, so for the best viewing experience it is worth using your free Google login, or opening a free Google Mail and Google Account. This will also give you free cloud storage for your presentations.

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Call for chapters

Call for chapters Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism What will tourism look like in the 2030s? Tourism destination development will take sustainability as a given. Social media and emerging technologies will be integrated in the stories of co-created visitor experience. Are you working in these converging areas? Following the success of our research monograph with Routledge and its teaching companion, we are looking for contributors for a new collection. Click to view Download free eBook Chapters of up to 8000 words, including references. Each chapter to explore a tourism or hospitality development as a case study with details of underpinning theory. Provide example questions and answers for students, and PowerPoint® slides for lecturers to use your chapter in their modules. Download and Submit in WORD Document Timeline for Chapter...

AI Detector

I've been looking at AI Detectors that are now stable and easy to use. The first one to write about is from a company based in Montreal, and so, as you would expect from that bilingual city, it works on English and French texts. It's called Winston AI. The AI detector tells you if written copy is generated by a human or an Artificial Intelligence text generator robot. It uses a graphic sliding scale. The software also detects plagiarism and presents a thorough list of any copied content it has found. As a user of Winston AI you just paste text into the quick scan option. You can upload bigger documents in the following formats: .docx, .pdf, .png and .jpg for the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system to convert to electronic text from scanned documents or pictures. This also works on handwriting like Google Lens and the other handwritten text readers and convertors do. The Winston AI Detector works in projects, this lets you label or title pieces you are examining for plagi...

PhD in Contemporary Travel Writing

PhD in Contemporary Travel Writing Syddansk Universitet Writing Travel in the Twenty-First Century: Mobility and Authenticity in the Planetary Emergency Travel is older than human civilization itself. Migration, trade, tourism and pilgrimage, all are forms of human movement that have existed for millennia. Yet travel is no longer what it used to be. Slow travel, flight shame, sustainable travel, eco- and anti-tourism, staycation and microadventures are but some of many recent terms testifying to a growing awareness that mobility has become inextricably intertwined with planetary concerns, regardless of whether it is the short distance of a commute to work, or that of long-distance globetrotting. With 2024 likely proving to be the hottest year on record and tourists evacuated by boat from uncontrollable forest fires on Rhodes in 2023, all the while tech billionaires promise us trips to Mars and hotels on the moon (while others perish trying to reach the Titanic), we are also told t...

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